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SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1 – GEM OF THE MONTH

STORY: JASON AARONART / COVER: JASON LATOUR APRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin’ Rebs football team...and more bastards than you’ve ever seen. When you’re an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick.From the acclaimed team of JASON AARON and JASON LATOUR, the same bastards who brought you Scalped and Wolverine: Japan’s Most Wanted, comes a southern fried crime series that’s like the Dukes of Hazzard meets the Coen Brothers...on meth.

INVINCIBLE #111 – GEM OF THE MONTH

STORY: ROBERT KIRKMANART / COVER: RYAN OTTLEYAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99THE WALKING DEAD CREATOR ROBERT KIRKMAN WRITES INVINCIBLE!!!A new beginning for INVINCIBLE as things take a turn down a dark path. Everything changes as Invincible is betrayed by one of his own. You won’t want to miss this explosive issue #1... 1... 1! It packs the punch of THREE relaunched number one issues! IN ONE BOOK!

THE FIELD #1 (of 4)

STORY: ED BRISSONART / COVER: SIMON ROYAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50A man wakes in a field wearing nothing but his underwear. He's got no idea who he is or how he got there. His only connection to the outside world a cell phone on which he receives mysterious texts warning him of impending danger. Danger like Christian, an ex-bible sales-man in the middle of crime spree fueled by Christian Rock, dirty sex, meth, murder and keeping this underwear clad, nameless and pastless man close by his side.

SHUTTER #1

STORY: JOE KEATINGEART / COVER A: LEILA DEL DUCACOVER B: DUSTIN WEAVERCOVER C: BRANDON GRAHAMCOVER D: EMMA RÍOSAPRIL 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50INDIANA JONES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY!Marvel Knights: Hulk and GLORY writer JOE KEATINGE teams up with artist extraordinaire LEILA DEL DUCA for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining the urban fantasy of Fables and the globe-spanning adventure of Y: The Last Man. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer of an Earth far more fantastic than the one we know, is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting.

DREAM POLICE #1

STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKIART / COVER A: SID KOTIAN & BILL FARMERCOVER B: RENAE DELIZ & RAY DILLONAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99Dream Police Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stanford have been partners for as long as they can remember, patrolling the alternate universe of dreams, nightmares, and the great void beyond, an alternate but very real dimension of changelings, echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, those who died in their sleep and wander the dreamscape forever. They've seen it all. But when Frank steps away and disappears...and the woman who returns says she's Joe's partner, that she's always been Joe's partner...he begins a journey into the unknown that will shake the dreaming down to its very foundations.

’68: RULE OF WAR #1 (of 4)

STORY: MARK KIDWELL ART: JEFF ZORNOW & JAY FOTOSCOVER A: NAT JONESCOVER B: CLAYTON CRAINCOVER C: BLANK SKETCHAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99In a doom-shadowed Cambodia infested with the living dead, CIA Special Agent Declan Rule and his canine companion Nero stalk a human monster, a neurosurgeon bent on carrying out grisly experiments that turn P.O.W.s into vicious instruments of war. In Vietnam, Private Kuen Yam and his ragtag band of survivors battle their way across a murderous no-man’s-land in a desperate search for a ticket to the skies. The war is over, but the battle for humanity’s survival has just begun. Courage will be tested, sanity will be pushed to the breaking point and the rules of war...will be broken.

SHOTGUN WEDDING #1 (of 4)

STORY: WILLIAM HARMSART / COVER: EDWARD PUNAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams. Denise is smart, sexy, teaches the second grade, and loves Mike more than anything in the world. What she doesn’t know is that Mike is one of the world’s top assassins and was once engaged to a fellow assassin named Chloe. And when Mike abandoned Chloe on their wedding day, she vowed revenge...This April, treat yourself to an issue of SHOTGUN WEDDING each Wednesday! All FOUR issues of Minotaur Press's latest miniseries will be released in April, and the covers for all four issues connect to form one larger image.

ELEPHANTMEN: 2260 BOOK ONE TP

STORY: RICHARD STARKINGSART: AXEL MEDELLINCOVER: BOO COOKAPRIL 2 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99Collects ELEPHANTMEN #51-55A new arc, a new slim trade paperback format for ELEPHANTMEN, and, at $9.99, a great opportunity for new readers to start reading the book they've heard so much about! Jack Farrell is a private detective who never gave a second thought to the Elephantmen—until he was paid to.

GLORY: THE COMPLETE SAGA HC

STORY: JOE KEATINGEART / COVER: ROSS CAMPBELLAPRIL 23 / 352 PAGES / FC / T+ / $34.99Collects GLORY #23-34THE ACCLAIMED APOCALYPTIC WAR SAGA COLLECTED IN ITS ENTIRETY! ROSS CAMPBELL (Wet Moon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and JOE KEATINGE (Marvel Knights: Hulk) finally collect their critically-acclaimed and brutally told saga of one warrior and her family torn apart by a millennia-old intergalactic war. This is the complete story, collected in its entirety for the very first time in a deluxe oversized hardcover edition. Includes never-before-seen sketchbook material, scripts, commentary, and interviews.

LAZARUS, VOL. 2: LIFT TP

STORY: GREG RUCKAART / COVER: MICHAEL LARKAPRIL 23 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99Collects LAZARUS #5-9The second story arc in the New York Times bestselling series. Forever uncovers rebellion brewing in LA, and the Barrets, a family of "Waste," undertake a 500-mile journey to Denver in the hope that one of their family will be noticed by the Carlyles and "lifted" to Serf status.

PRETTY DEADLY, VOL. 1 TP

STORY: KELLY SUE DeCONNICKART: EMMA RÍOS & JORDIE BELLAIRECOVER: EMMA RÍOS APRIL 30 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99Collects PRETTY DEADLY #1-5SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE!KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and EMMA RÍOS (Dr. Strange, Osborn) present the collected opening arc of their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her origin story is a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.

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APOCALYPSE AL #3 (of 4)

STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKIART / COVER A: SID KOTIAN & BILL FARMERCOVER B: ARIEL OLIVETTIAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99The life of private investigator Allison Carter is complicated enough just preventing the end of the world on a regular basis. But in the midst of her latest case she gets an unexpected call from her mostly-dead ex-boyfriend, who has a tip that may prove helpful or push the world further toward its destruction. Along the way, she encounters a closet troll with a stun-gun fetish, a theme park filled with demonic creatures in happy costumes, and unravels a secret that will change her life forever.

APOCALYPSE AL #4 (of 4)

STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKIART / COVER A: SID KOTIAN & BILL FARMERCOVER B: ARIEL OLIVETTIAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99In the fiery conclusion to Allison Carter's investigation, she at last comes face-to-face with the man trying to bring about the end of the world...who has been working in secret with someone close to her the whole time. If love can be a reason to live, can it also be a reason to destroy...everything? This time saving the world may require the ultimate sacrifice. Does Al have what it takes? Or must we all confront the possibility that there is an ominous reason that this is only a four-part series?

ARTIFACTS #36

STORY: DAN WICKLINEART / COVER: -ROM-APRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99Tom Judge and Tilly track down students who used a math equation to open up a portal to the Ancient Ones (featured in THE DARKNESS: REBIRTH). Former Angelus and Witchblade bearer Daniel Baptiste investigates related murders.

BLACK SCIENCE #6

STORY: RICK REMENDERART / COVER: MATTEO SCALERA & DEAN WHITEAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50Stranded in the most dangerous dimension yet, Grant McKay’s rage at his onetime boss boils over. Ignoring the chaos all around them, the two finally come to blows! Only one thing is certain: before the Pillar makes its next jump...one of them must die!Don't miss the conclusion to the first arc of the world’s most mind-melting sci-fi comic!

THE BOUNCE #12

STORY: JOE CASEYART / COVER: DAVID MESSINAAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99GET READY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD! Nothing you've seen so far could prepare you for the event that occurs in this issue! And the Bounce is at ground zero! After this, NOTHING will ever be the same! BUY IT AND LOVE IT!

CHEW #41

DEAD BODY ROAD #5

STORY: JUSTIN JORDANART / COVER: MATTEO SCALERA & MORENO DINISIOAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99Holed up and under siege, Gage and his accomplices may have run out of road...but not bullets. Or heads to put them through.

DEADLY CLASS #4

STORY: RICK REMENDERART / COVER: WESLEY CRAIG & LEE LOUGHRIDGEAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50Class trip! Marcus, Willie, and Saya tear through a neon-soaked Las Vegas, high on life...oh, and a bunch of acid too. And when you’re a teenage killer-on-the-run, stalked by a mutilated psycho with a raging hard-on for revenge, you’re in for one baaad trip.

EAST OF WEST #12

STORY: JONATHAN HICKMANART / COVER: NICK DRAGOTTAAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.50"THE NIGHT BEFORE"A last ditch effort is undertaken to avoid a war between the nations by the most unlikely person on the planet. The remains of the Chosen reassemble.

FIVE WEAPONS #9

STORY / ART / COVER: JIMMIE ROBINSONAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.50"BACK TO CLASS," Part FourEnrique, Principal O, and the Nurse unleash a full assault against Tyler in order to regain power of the school clubs. But Tyler isn’t going down without a fight because he has a secret weapon of his own: the fastest animal on earth...Principal Z’s cheetah.

THE FUSE #3

STORY: ANTONY JOHNSTONART / COVER: JUSTIN GREENWOODAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50"THE RUSSIA SHIFT," Part ThreeWhoever thought two dead bums could be such a pain in the ass? Now even the Mayor's office is under scrutiny, but even an old Muscovite like Klem Ristovych knows that's a whole new bag of hurt to be poking.And why the hell is Ralph researching terrorist groups?

KRAMPUS! #5

STORY: BRIAN JOINESART / COVER: DEAN KOTZAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99The bad news: as blizzards rage across the globe, humanity’s fate rests with the Krampus deciding who he stands with—his oppressors in the Society of Santa Clauses or the mastermind who rendered them powerless. The worse news: the Krampus is no fan of humanity. The first storyline concludes here!

THE MERCENARY SEA #3

STORY: KEL SYMONSART / COVER: MATHEW REYNOLDSAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99"BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA"Jack Harper and the crew of the Venture slip into enemy waters to rescue a British spy, code-named "Top Hat." Only their old adversary, Captain Tono of the Imperial Japanese Navy, spoils the party.

THE MICE TEMPLAR IV: LEGEND #9

STORY: BRYAN J.L. GLASSART: VICTOR SANTOSCOVER A: MICHAEL AVON OEMINGCOVER B: VICTOR SANTOS & CHANDRA FREEAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.50Mad king Icarus's destruction of the Great Ash Tree has galvanized the entire Templar remnant around the legend of Karic, for both good...and ill. While the charismatic Field Marshal Payton seeks control of the young mouse's legacy, the schemes of Ronan enlist intervention by the Bats of Meave to restore his own fading leadership no matter the cost!

MINIMUM WAGE #4

STORY / ART / COVER: BOB FINGERMANAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50It's hard to tell if it's celebarting or medicating, but on the heels of Rob signing a new lease, he and the boys hit the town hard in an alcohol-fueld swirl. Goth girls, trench coat Mafiosi, jock thugs, and more populate the fourth chapter of BOB FINGERMAN's so-real-it-hurts series.

NOWHERE MEN #9

ONE-HIT WONDER #3 (of 5)

STORY: FABRICE SAPOLSKYART / COVER: ARIEL OLIVETTIAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50The shocking events of last issue have left Richie angrier than ever. He's determined to find who has targeted someone very close to him. His journey only begins and on the way, he'll cross paths with an old friend, a pretender, a dead guy with weird tattoos, and a human bomb!

PROTECTORS, INC. #6

STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKIART / COVER: GORDON PURCELL & MIKE ATIYEHAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99It began with two seemingly unconnected deaths: a young woman, washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the Huntsman, whose death Protectors, Inc. insisted was an accident. But now the lines connecting those two events are becoming clear, and Lieutenant Detective John Riley finds himself on the edge of a conspiracy that may shatter everything the public believes about their heroes...assuming he can survive the investigation.

REVENGE #3 (of 4)

STORY: JONATHAN ROSSART / COVER: IAN CHURCHILLAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99With Ignatio the surgically enhanced dwarf as an unexpected ally and a new face stolen from a dead dog, Griffin Franks’ luck is finally looking up! But he still has to fight his way past a gang of corrupt killer cops and get back to Hollywood if he is going to get what he wants most in the world: REVENGE!

REVIVAL #20

SATELLITE SAM #8

STORY: MATT FRACTIONART / COVER: HOWARD CHAYKINAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.50SEX! DEATH! LIVE TV!Michael and Kara make a major breakthrough in their unofficial investigation into the death of the man that played "Satellite Sam" as everyone’s kinks and obsessions go into overdrive—and scandal threatens to tear the show and the network apart.

SAVIORS #5

STORY: JAMES ROBINSONART / COVER: J. BONEAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99Tomas and fellow freedom fighter Kurt have escaped the horror of the Mexican town La Calma and the aliens who hunted them. Or so they think. However, now at adrift at sea, a greater alien horror awaits them, with no way to destroy it and nowhere to run.

SOVEREIGN #2

STORY: CHRIS ROBERSONART / COVER: PAUL MAYBURYAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99An emperor lays dead, with no successor named for his vacated throne. Visitors from a distant land discover that there is more in the world than their philosophies know. And three masked outcasts come bearing word of a coming apocalypse...

SPAWN #242

STORY / COVER: TODD McFARLANEART: SZYMON KUDRANSKI APRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99After the annihilation at the construction site Bludd tries to figure out his next move. Clown is the last place he’d seek help, but may have no alternative. Sara begins having excruciatingly demonic nightmares, but, unfortunately for Sara, her visions my not be a dream.

STARLIGHT #2

STORY: MARK MILLARART / COVER B: GORAN PARLOVCOVER A: BILL SIENKIEWICZAPRIL 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99Duke McQueen once saved an alien world from destruction—but it happened in a place nobody believes in, during a time nobody remembers. Surrounded by memories of his late wife and his happier past, Duke’s days as a hero are long gone...or so he thinks! Now, a young visitor from the world Duke once saved is coming to him with a desperate plea for help. It’s one last chance at adventure for Duke, and another chapter to unfold in the ever-expanding Millarworld Universe!

STRAY BULLETS: KILLERS #2

STORY / ART / COVER: DAVID LAPHAMAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.50When her niece, missing for almost a year, shows up on her doorstep with a horrifying secret, Carol Hogarth will find out that people can be poison...especially if that person is named Virginia Applejack. Find out what best friends, worst enemies, an artificial leg, and a bottle of rum all have to do with "THE KILLER WHO AWOKE BEFORE DAWN."

TALES OF HONOR #2

STORY: MATT HAWKINSART: JUNG-GEUN YOON & SANG-IL JEONGCOVER A: SANG-IL JEONGCOVER B: PATRICK TATAPOULOUSAPRIL 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99THE HONORVERSE EXPANDS TO COMICS!Based on the bestselling military science fiction novels by David Weber, this original comic book series continues the story of Honor Harrington as she investigates the threat to Basilisk Station by the Republic of Haven. This series is part of a new multi-platform story world that includes a mobile game app to be released with the first issue and a feature film currently in development.

TEN GRAND #10STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKIART / COVER A: C.P. SMITHCOVER B: KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKYAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99Joe has penetrated into the depths of Hell to save Laura, the woman he loves more than life itself, from a horrific fate beyond description. He's learned the Enemy's plans to bring down Heaven. They think he's cornered, trapped, neutralized. They're wrong, and by the end of this issue, the ultimate war between heaven and hell will begin...with Joe Fitzgerald right at the center of the biggest fight since the dawn of Creation.

THIEF OF THIEVES #20

STORY: ANDY DIGGLEART / COVER: SHAWN MARTINBROUGH & FELIX SERRANOAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99"THE HIT LIST" starts here! Conrad may have pulled off his last heist, but not without making some new enemies. Is anyone in his life safe?

UMBRAL #6

STORY: ANTONY JOHNSTONART / COVER: CHRISTOPHER MITTENAPRIL 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99"CHASING SHADOWS"THE CONCLUSION TO BOOK ONE! Rascal runs from the Redguard's clutches—but it will cost her more than she can imagine! Where can she go? Who can she trust? Are you sure? Because nothing seems certain any more. And by the end of this issue, nobody will be above suspicion!

UNDERTOW #3 (of 6)

STORY: STEVE ORLANDOART / COVER: ARTYOM TRAKHANOVAPRIL 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99Surrounded by bloodthirsty humans, boiling in their landsuits as the sun rises, Redum Anshargal and Ukinnu Alal's team comes face to face with a primordial god. He's never killed a god before, but that doesn't mean Anshargal isn't up for trying. The dry frontier takes another life as the pulp monster adventure continues!

A VOICE IN THE DARK #6

STORY / ART / COVER: LARIME TAYLORAPRIL 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99"KILLING GAME," Part FourWith Zoey plotting murder once again, she needs to get close to her prey and learn all she can. That means going undercover to the Sorority Halloween party. But is Zoey the only killer in costume?

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